Amazon considering its position

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Apple recently dropped Google Maps, replacing it with its own mapping service.  I heard Amazon is considering doing the same. A rather vague announcement was made by Amazon that suggested the company wanted its users to start using its own proprietary mapping software, but experts don’t say this is a definite proposal. This has left [...]

Cloud computing forum

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With cloud and cloud computing developing at an unprecedented rate, experts from around the world are descending on Earls Court in London, I believe, for a two-day conference in June. The basic idea of the meeting is to discuss the growing benefits of cloud with many keynote speakers from companies, which ordinarily could be described [...]

Amazon celebrates its first birthday with a giveaway

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Well, not exactly, but the online store is encouraging customers to take part in a competition to win a Kindle Fire tablet.  The company is also putting a number of its Android Apps on sale. Unlike other companies that celebrate its creation the Amazon Appstore is offering different deals on different successive days, I believe. [...]

Amazon passes a milestone

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I’m not sure if this just the US Amazon site or worldwide, but the company recently celebrated 31,000 Android Apps on its store. What is remarkable though, is that Amazon only started offering applications on its Appstore 12 months ago.  So it’s a great first birthday to celebrate. Speaking with bgr.com, Aaron Rubenson, Director of [...]

Can Android apps close the gap on Apple’s iOS apps?

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That’s a question exercising the minds of a number of commentators at the moment.  The question I believe revolves around the idea that Android users are less likely to pay for their Google Apps than iPhone or iPad users. It is also a reason why app developers tend to prefer making products for Apple’s gadgets [...]

Free App Of The Day

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Amazon held a free app of the day last Saturday. If you didn’t know about it, like me, then you are out of luck – particularly if you like games such as Trial Xtreme 2 Winter. That said, I’m not sure if this free offer was applicable those who live in the UK. If it [...]

Kindle Fire Grabs a Third Share of App Usage

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In just three short months since the Kindle Fire was released, it has managed to grab about a third of the overall Android tablet usage activity.  This means in simple terms that Amazon’s Kindle Fire owners are the keenest on using Google Apps. The news comes from Flurry, a firm of digital analysts.  A spokesperson [...]

Wikipedia Goes App

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If you are a regular Wikipedia user then this will interest you enormously, I think.  There is a new application from Google Apps available that you can download from the Android Marketplace.  The app has been around a while, but was first created for Apple’s iOS platform. Interestingly, along with Google and some other big [...]

Kindle Fire Price Slashed

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In what could be described as a rather interesting move, I believe Amazon has decided to slash the price of its Kindle Fire tablet.  It seems the online book company is doing so in anticipation of the arrival of Apple’s iPad 3. A spokesperson for Amazon told knowyourmobile.com “Amazon have indicated that Kindle Fire orders [...]